Prof. A. Wierzbicka. |
Puls Polonii: Professor Anna Wierzbicka is an author of many books including "What Jesus did mean?" published in 2001 by Oxford University Press. You will find Prof. Wierzbicka's Profile in the SYLWETKI TWÓRCÓW section of Puls Polonii.
Professor Anna Wierzbicka is a Professor in the Department of Linguistics, Arts (The Australian National University). She has a fine international reputation for her work in semantics, syntax, pragmatics and the interrelation between language and culture.
Her books are listed below. She has published numerous articles in linguistic, anthropological, and psychological journals including Language, American Anthropologist, Man, Anthropological Linguistics, and Cognition and Emotion.
Professor Wierzbicka is a Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities and Australian Academy of Social Sciences and has been awarded the Humboldt Research Prize for Foreign Scholars in Humanities.
Selected Publications:
*NEW* 1999. Emotions Across Languages and Cultures, Cambridge University Press.
1972. Semantic Primitives. (Frankfurt: Athenäum).
1980. Lingua Mentalis. (Sydney: Academic Press).
1980. The Case for Surface Case. (Ann Arbor: Karoma).
1985. Lexicography and Conceptual Analysis. (Ann Arbor: Karoma).
1987. Speech Act Verbs. (Sydney: Academic Press).
1988. The Semantics of Grammar. (Amsterdam: John Benjamins).
1991. Cross-cultural Pragmatics. (Berlin: Mouton De Gruyter).
1992. Semantics, Culture and Cognition. (Oxford: OUP).
1996a. Semantics, Primes and Universals. (Oxford: OUP).
1996b. Understanding Cultures through their Key Words. (Oxford: OUP).
Contact Information:
E-mail: Anna.Wierzbicka@anu.edu.au
Phone: (02) 6125 3353
Fax: (02) 6125 8214
source: arts.anu.edu.au/linguistics/arts_fac/staff/wierzbicka.html | 
